From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 12:12:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9239106564A for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 12:12:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maanjee@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7938FC28 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 12:12:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maanjee@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so169793rvf.43 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 05:12:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=moBLeBgwER0m+Nv9nc9D7K6QO55f5VkoWGMFG7biiJU=; b=tE+iO1HaWUL7V35OFV2s1fx9bV5vTwrdopafDH3CuvwO4cbOLcwGVnNZxYnuD0i/UbSuO2DUZOsKTKMmmLbpF18c83RC9wKRBJnSQxwlNMdFdxgNy7aNTwIjlMsnnEO6lRDA82K52r1Dzup+dwhfj/0vDVFbPIGzkVL0RREzCuk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=QckdWGFMttdFnSqjIGqntW+6Jngt7QeK5hfLJyMDzNjt6IxaZKCedMdZB6kQ7BunTvE1Wg3yES2bJNVeWFO3qcCs5WRlZ8O1UNyB5QJtY9YwDTNIYTaSAQuNlFSZGFahgeOvAMWBEUtNP/lvbHP44W5JXBx4SvUsoZTeWRK+LF0= Received: by 10.114.13.10 with SMTP id 10mr3675825wam.106.1210938231275; Fri, 16 May 2008 04:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.78.13 with HTTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 04:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2cd0a0da0805160443hf4fe6fk13033c08273bd2d6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 13:43:49 +0200 From: VeeJay To: FreeBSD-Questions , maanjee@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Need your Advice for New Dell Servers in connection to FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:12:54 -0000 Hi guys, I need your advice: I am IT manager with a company who is running couple of websites having 2-3 million hits per month each. Present configuratoins is: Dell PowerEdge 2950 (2 processors) 4GB RAM 4 discs (15000rpm SAS 146GB) RAID10 Operating System: FreeBSD Actually, company is planning to buy couple of Dell server. 1. Is Dell is good choice? And which model is the best? 2. How much RAM should be on each machine? How much memory FreeBSD can access and use? 2.1 Company also wants to make Video Clips availible on website, Could it be possible with Apache running on FreeBSD? 3. Which processors should be on the machine? 4. Is 15000rpm SAS is good choice? (Because, websites are using MySQL database too) 5. Which RAID configuration is most secure and fast? I will really appreciate your suggestions.... With bundle of thanks! VJ -- BR / vj